Khamzat Azimov

Khamzat Azimov (1997-12 May 2018) was a Chechen Islamic State member who killed 1 person and injured 4 in a knife attack in the Opera district of Paris, France on 12 May 2018.

Biography
Khamzat Azimov was born in Chechnya, Russia in 1997, and his family was granted refugee status in France in 2004. Azimov grew up in Strasbourg, Alsace, and he became a naturalized French citizen in 2010. In 2016, he became a person of interest to the police after some of his friends travelled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State, but Azimov committed no crimes. In 2018, he decided to carry out an attack for IS, knifing people on the Rue Saint-Augustin and at the Passage Choiseul. He killed one person and injured four, and the police attempted to stun gun him. When this failed, they shot him dead.